i know that i. thousands of protesters converge on the u.s. congress demanding new laws to and must spying by the national security agency. another day and yet more damaging revelations the case communications had cooled his documents reveal the lengths. to keep the mass surveillance program secret. when you are with us from over the real history but this is the first time the big claim it's ever been made at the north pole and our t.v. crew follows that twenty four team torch relay into the polar night we'll be bringing you spectacular images from.

levon pm here in moscow is kevin and we do very good to have your company live news events start with crowds flooding capitol hill in washington d.c. venting their fury against the n.s.a. sweeping surveillance practices the organizers say it's the largest probe previously rally in u.s. history let's go this is going to treat you can is amongst the protesters are there . what exactly are they are asking for here. well kevin i have to say that people gathered here on the anniversary of the signing of the patriot act twelve years ago they say that was the day when in the name of fighting terror their rights were taken away from them against the trade offs between. security and liberty between security and privacy and they say it is

a trade off also people here say that they're tired of lies that the government has been telling to cover up their spying. the director of national intelligence james clapper said no when asked whether the n.s.a. was collecting data on millions of americans edward snowden's revelations of course confirmed that was the latest. just within a month the n.s.a. spied on more than one hundred and twenty four billion phone calls worldwide. every single person on earth. and the person edward snowden thanks to whom this protest is happening is now holed up. here in the states. and people here say thank you edward snowden they stayed on their banners they stayed on their jackets everywhere they everybody

here everybody here realizes this conversation wouldn't be happening if it were not for edward snowden. huge story unfolding. historic protests. all they really the people behind you. well that's a that's a big question that's a huge question but what people here want is what they demand is meaningful not just a reform they demand a meaningful. reform they came here with a petition with more than five hundred thousand signatures on it demanding congress investigate the n.s.a. spying programs the senate. intelligence committee. so they want to make sure that their voices are heard. is now divided into those who demand

a drastic overhaul of the spying programs and those who suggest. more oversight now one of the main messages of this rally is watch the watchers some people are asking is it really possible because so far a new light that's been shed on the watchers was through whistleblowers you know good point got it thanks for now it will become about you through the course of the evening as that rally develops. now of course the n.s.a. has been under fire over its overseas activities as well revelations it's been eavesdropping on key allies including german chancellor angela merkel sparked outrage in europe this last week we're getting reports tonight to the president told merkel in a phone conversation that he had no knowledge this was going on a put that the civil rights act was richard back if he dumps that plane the united states its relationship with other countries is based and this notion of

quote unquote american exceptionalism and there is in fact an american exceptionalism that no other country in the world spies and everybody else and all of and all other countries that feels free to intervene in all of their countries and the fact that this is come to light shows the real nature of the relationships and even among the allies they are in contention in competition with each other not to mention the kind of relationship that. it's carried out against those countries that the united states considers to be its enemies and of the thick end of this to the american internet service providers also feeling the pressure crypto seal which allowed users to browse the internet anonymously is closed following the same path as love a bit the christians say was of course used by edward snowden lovably closed in all good stuff refusing to cooperate with the n.s.a. now crypto seal co-founder roy black he tells us what was behind his decision. they would require a search warrant to extract keys and if you're under the new. lot of the case they

can use a pen register or their id order which is a much lower standard to compel providers to turn over keys so we can't really operate in that environment so we preemptively shut the service down it was too risky to operate being threatened with jail or prison for running a computer service for people is a very very scary proposition and i personally have no interest in going to. and scuttle across the pond to british intelligence has been trying desperately to keep it so that his practice is secret wary of public anger legal challenges if it comes out it submerged though from internal documents leaked by edward snowden detained by the guardian newspaper. reports the spy agencies was fees could already be coming through. these latest documents reveal the long fight that g c h had against making insists that evidence admissible in criminal trials now one of these memos detailing that g c h t's main concerns with reference to agency practices and

the extension scope of the would lead to a damaging public debate now ironically of course that public debate already taking place in the case at the moment on the back of those edward snowden revelations and for the first time in a few weeks we're going to see the heads of m i five and i six and the c.h.p. giving evidence in public now that will be broadcast virus us like link although there will be a short delay now perhaps we'll see as this public debate unfolds wheeling out some of their media friendly people the documents also revealing that they had a list of people they could rely on for press handling but the guardian newspaper really pulling no punches in their piece today saying that the revelations once again calling into question the lack of effective legal protections when it comes

to inception of all communications in calling this a breach of trust by the u.k. government on the grandest scale. sort of first for all for the controversial topics used by british intelligence in the ongoing but let's let's talk to former m i five agent only mushroom joining us now live from dresden. privately admitted it's been pushing for use of the bones of legality maybe more but what's going to happen and of the days it will go to take. legally over this one would hope so in the u.k. i have to say that the debate around the edward snowden disclosures we have been global have global impact and have been sort of muffled a little bit in the u.k. because we have the substance to the media could be noted committee which has been issued against the media. so they're frightened to report on what's going on so let me just say that has a straight it's not being reported as fully as it should be in the u.k. this huge story well the guardian is certainly fighting forwards on this issue

there's no doubt about that but the rest of the media tends to be on the side of the government and on the side of the head of m i five and you parker who recently went public in a very rare speech and said that well by putting this information out there we're protecting our terrorist enemies we're we're helping them we're giving me information that they knew so this is a media self and ship in the u.k. which i think probably need in most western democratic countries and they are abiding by that and there has stifled the debate. that the british intelligence to give evidence to parliament shortly on november the seventh is that some kind of breakthrough should be paying for the outcomes for well it's only a step forward in the right direction in the u.k. what we have is something called the intelligence and security committee in parliament which is supposed to oversee the work of the intelligence agencies in the u.k. it was a pretty place almost twenty years ago but they've had very limited powers they could only look at policy finance and administration this year that is changed this

year they're now allowed to look at the operational techniques and so tension crimes of the spies they can critique and come and give evidence under oath so that is a step forward however the person who is the chair of the i.s.c. so malcolm rifkind has already said. in defense of the revelations from it with snowden that all the intelligence agencies within you pay are abiding by the laws and these laws are over twenty years old and they are relevant to this internet connected age there's been so much media reporting on this whole big story with everything over this last week and of course u.k. prime minister cameron signed that e.u. statement against oh say spy we're. going by what we're reporting tonight kind of hypocritical coming from here because i'm not g c h q surely not well you have to do that a bit like and clinical has to say that she is outraged about the fact that her butt personal phone has been intercepted by the n.s.a.

when the initial slow just came out from snowden saying that we were all being data mined in survey our politicians were slightly less indignant should we say i think cameron has to do this he has to show that he is concerned about the issues of surveillance but we have to also acknowledge that g.h.q. and the german v.n.d. intelligence agency have been reportedly very close allies and have been doing the dirty work for the n.s.a. so let's not leave and a final thought well i got the call drawn to come from the fact we're hearing tonight it's been reported that when a bomber spoke to richard know anything about any spying on a phone could he not have no is the guy at the top of all this end of the day his it's his right at the top or maybe could he genuinely not have known i think it's very likely he would not have known i know that certain key senior intelligence officials in the u.s. have lied to congress they perjured themselves apparently about the scale of the

surveillance in the u.s. i know in the u.k. from the inside that people working for the agency agencies with concerns about the scale of the violence can be blocked from talking to the oversight mechanisms. so i don't think it's inconceivable that obama didn't know that it was also interesting that the specific report that came out and just people today said that. he was reassuring of the merkel that their conversations went ethiope to her on the mobile phone we're not been for the aid doesn't mean everybody else in germany typically thinks and would not make her eyes crossed as. four or five agents or is really good to get your take on it and or your experience giving us the insight there love it thank you for more opinions more updates on the revelations that keep coming in on the u.k. intelligence agency h.q. please head to our website plenty the r.t. dot com. so completely different now the olympic torch has reached the north pole for the first time ever as part of the ambitious saatchi twenty forty relay artie's james brown joined the arctic voyage on board

a nuclear icebreaker hereis. just in case you didn't actually believe we were going to the north pole i think that eliminates any down doesn't it you might think it's just before the dawn or just before the sun certains but actually we're right smack bang in the middle of the day in fact it's just gone twelve thirty in the afternoon but of course the further north we go the less daylight we're getting the polar nights are coming into full effect and as you can see our ice breaker is really having to prove our worth no. faith. and you can see everything is getting rather busy and excited up here and we're all on the bridge for the final approach there is our lympics flame we can see you make its way on to the north pole. top of the world.

but it's not often you get to witness a moment of real history but this is the first time to be maybe claim it's ever been made of the north pole exactly that. i'm here to see. and while that historic journey continues europe's leaders have been grappling with more mundane matters stifling red tape and that friday somebody in brussels britain failed to persuade the rest of the block to curb what it sees as pointless regulations that are taking a heavy toll on u.k. taxpayers laura smith reports from london. david cameron's in brussels this week to

demand the return of powers from the u. and he's got a new weapon in his all marie a report by think tank. fall from being a net beneficiary of all of brussels rules and regulations. costing the u.k. taxpayer a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year in europe has looked at the hundred most expensive regulations stuff like rules on working hours g.m. food and a range of other diktats and found that in at least twenty four cases the costs outweigh the benefits even according to the government figures meaning that it's knowingly spending taxpayer money for no return in other cases the report found the benefits of the regulations have been involved stated. that in the case of climate change regulations around ninety five percent of the expected benefits totally

failed to materialize but this study only covers the top one hundred of the it's just the take of the arts. and regulation which doesn't include. doesn't include. it is just red tape obviously if britain left the e.u. tomorrow those costs wouldn't just disappear but at least say critics it would be british regulation of the british people are. many see cameron's proposals for reform to this european summit as his first step in trying to change the balance of power with brussels ahead of the referendum he's promised the british people. just a minute or two away we ask who countries and on america's expanding waistlines. been created in the.

so much of us crave it. look into why people get. high fat high sugar foods and. the trend. in my dreams. but he couldn't hold on to there is such a thing. now she runs her own factory. smoking and even coffee is forbidden they worship. will he be able to win. his woman.

stories others refuse to. change. the picture. from roads to. be. soldiers being killed on the international troops he was serving alongside of the military. least one. it is the fourth such thing this month the story told me what he believes is behind these attacks. first of all

there is real lot humiliation. among. all the last ten years twelve years or. now most of the fighting is being done by afghans while about one hundred thousand foreign troops are protected by contractors so in afghanistan both in the army and the police and in the civilian population that the americans and other nato troops are actually protecting themselves and getting ready to get out me time nato member turkey's coming under fire for its our lives over to talk to the chinese about building a multi billion dollar anti missile system the u.s. is voices concerned warning the deal to undermine allied air defenses to send but she explained what's motivating to. the american. system that the americans control the entire system if it is the lord rare as china

offering turkey to produce together. to control. together and provide turkey along control of the entire system apparently the sides agree to the deal be a purely commercial matter but the u.s. has no launch technical discussions with turkey but the potential impact of the plans professor but she told r.t. lanka and i wants more leverage in its relationship with washington. the turkish government. of course negotiate this situation with the americans but the americans have to make this concession that turkey is taking part in the production . process until now it was always off fairly. in turkey this was a new way of thinking a new third confidence that turkey wants to be part of the entire process. but

views online for japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plants getting more unwelcome attention on top of the earthquake and tsunami were a bit earlier this week now a former cleanup workers pointed to major blunders in the plant's operations and is accused management of exploitation even matthew connections we've got the back story on our website and from high hopes to bear to disappoint with the much anticipated biopic on wiki leaks founder julian assange just got a hostile reception to find out why the fifty states being panned by the critics who are to call. the us obesity rates become a key health concern affecting one in three adults these days some say the phenomenon is a direct result of the tricks that food companies used to try to get us consumers addicted to their products is really important to our investigators. it's the richest country on earth where banks can't fail and waistlines can't stop expanding waistlines in america are growing alarming new study showing half of all americans

could be obese and less than twenty years sugary drinks on water waistlines go hand in hand with one out of every three adults clinically obese and forty percent of children officially overweight experts say food has become a drug and. cooked and marketed by an industry banking on addiction what science has done in the lab and they've created these chemical concoctions that are very sickly very fatty and very salty and they caught up with point scientists and food industry whistleblowers say big food companies engineer processed foods and beverages with ingredients that pique the taste buds while tricking the brain to think you're still hungry causing you to eat more but in a country where diabetes high cholesterol high blood pressure and heart disease are becoming all too common among millions of children and adolescents why don't food corporations create healthier recipes in one word. we are

doing mommy. kill. another major profit generating ingredient for big food is marketing in the u.s. there is virtually no regulation of food and drink advertising even when it's hard it's children. last year entertainer beyond say a fifty million dollar endorsement deal with pepsi this came as the american heart association released a report finding that twenty five thousand obesity related deaths in the u.s. back in two thousand and ten were linked to the over consumption of soda and other sugary drinks in france they have a warning label on it much like we have warning labels here cigarettes they put a warning label on processed foods it says warning to food make be harmful to your health while europe. in countries require genetically modified foods to be labeled in the u.s. the biotech industry and corporations like pepsi co and coca-cola spent millions

last year to defeat a california ballot initiative for g.m.o. labeling it's very difficult to get the right labeling standards on to the packaging is big pushback with. producers who do not want to label what really is going into a food supply whole foods market or grocery chain with three hundred thirty nine stores recently announced that it will begin labeling on all g.m.o. foods within the next five years it will be the first and only u.s. retail store to require the food labeling on the other hand when it comes to soda regulation is off limits new york city mayor michael bloomberg recently lost his fight to limit the extra large serving sizes of sweet beverages in an effort to fight obesity. i. may and soda lovers like v.p. want to be sarah pailin have celebrated the fact that americans can continue

consuming and alarming amount of high fructose corn syrup and empty calories in one giant cup not sure if miss palin knows about the medical warnings indicating that if the country's health trend continues at its current pace nearly half of all americans will be obese by twenty thirty marina port i.r.t. new york. for all the big world news headlines in brief tonight next the greenpeace activists is taking his campaign to new heights in france he suspended himself from the oval tower in protest against russia's detention of thirty members of his organization the man on a mountain nearing ten from a second story that unfurled a banner before firefighters took him down two hours later last month the greenpeace team attempted to ball that up to gold ring platform they're still being held but russian prosecutors this week reduce the charges against them from piracy to hooliganism. hundreds of protesters here have attacked a bus station of brazil's largest city sub paolo after a peaceful march against high ticket prices turned ugly police tear gassed the

crowd after rioters vandalized turnstiles and cash machines and set vehicles ablaze up to seventy eight arrests were made brazilians been rallying against mismanagement of public services in cities throughout the country since june and there's also been fuel to buy the government's massive spending on preparations for the twenty fourteen world cup it. seems here for a part of berlin several hundred people taken part in an unauthorized demonstration at the brandenburg gate rally against police brutality and germany's persecution of asylum seekers was organized online at the same time for thousands of people in hamburg marched in support of african refugees around three hundred migrants from africa are now living in the city seeking residency and the right to work. arabian media says the thirties have hanged sixteen rebels in retaliation against the recent killings of border troops earlier the state news agency reported that seventeen soldiers died in clashes near pakistan they were reportedly ambushed in

the mountains outside the town of south of and around southeast a border that area's known for its interethnic tensions and also lies in a major drug route to europe. thank you for watching r.t. in a couple of minutes is the kaiser report. new zealand is boldly going where no government has gone before and according to reuters has decided to create a regulatory body to oversee recreational drugs that is they're opening pandora's box it have at least temporarily given approval to fifty substances for sale at special stores which are banned in most other countries the body is trying to take a more scientific approach and determine which substances are actually harmful to

the user you know i've heard the argument that the war on drugs just wastes massive sums of money effort and lives and you need turn a futile battle which is true it does but the only option people give is just legalize all drugs there are a few problems with this when something is legal that tends to make it ok is it really ok for you to spend your whole life in a trance to avoid reality is it really ok for everyone in town on friday night after work to go on an ice crystal meth rampage the other problem is that the war on drugs fails because it's fighting the drugs and not the reason why people take them which is to escape reality why do people want to escape reality because in modern times or post modern times we live a soulless pointless isolated consumeristic existence of working in a pointless office job just to get poor so we can scrape by and get some cheap plastic junk at walmart when people's lives are empty they will fill them with something through a needle but that's just my opinion. welcome

to the kaiser report i max kaiser you know in the u.k. there's a new line of underwear that filters out farts using chemical warfare technology these new underpants neutralize odors up to two hundred times the stinky strength of the average flatfish a mission alas even these underpants are not powerful enough to mask the stance of the foul when spewing forth from the mouth of the average central banker with their quantitative easing wreaking more havoc on the.